Friday, October 31, 2014

A good potion of a yummy meal for me is this one. There's fruit, veggies, and meat in it. What more can you ask for, right?

Hubby and i are trying our best to be of best health because we want to be around for the kids and see them grow and have their own family. We ope that by showing them good example, they will also follow our footsteps of living healthy.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

We got two coupons for free dessert from Eat and Park for our anniversary so when we had our dinner there, we got us a molten lava mini cake.. We took it home and our son ate the ice cream and hubby ate the cake and put icing on top . He let me tried it and I thought it was okay. I am not fond of chocolate cake so it wasn't really what I prefer in a sweet treat.

When we were in Korea, I fell in love with their cake because it always have fresh fruits as toppings.

When you have kids, chances are, you will always do coloring eggs during Easter time. You would think that it will get old as they get older but no, they still love to do it every year. Just ;ike my kids.

So what do you do with the eggs after the holiday is over? We turn us into deviled eggs. It's one of my husband's favorite snacks.

The kids love to prepare it too. They can even make it without my help but of course, I am always there supervising cos if not, they would make a big mess for me to clean up, lol.

My father -in-law loves deviled eggs as well. The good thing about this nutritious snack is, it's very easy to make them.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

I found these appetizer set and mozaik plates at the store we recently visited and bought them. They were on sale and they are good to have for elegant entertaining. Although I seldom host a party, this would be a fun things to use especially for the kids. Coz you know, when you incorporate a little fun into their food, they eat better.

This kind of appetizer set are usually around Asian cuisine such as Korean and Japanese. They usually serve side dishes and other dips in them.

Monday, October 27, 2014

We brought our son to the dentist last Friday because his tooth filling fell out. This is not the first that the tooth filling came out. MY husband is getting frustrated because he said he never had a filling that would easily comes out. Anyway, the dentist fixed it and my husband asked why the filling doesn't stay very long. I was a bit offended that the dentist told us that it could be our diet or dental hygiene that is causing it.

To be honest, we let our kids eat sweet treats once in a while but it is not an everyday thing at my house. We only let them have some as a treat or reward when they are doing something special at school. Below are photos of one of those days when we give them some sweet treats. We don't even buy chips and sweets anymore, only occasion which is very seldom.

I don't know, my husband is thinking of switching to a different provider. We will see.

Our daughter baked us a cake for our anniversary. I admire my daughter's passion in baking because I don't have it in me. She work hard on this particular baking project, she said that it is a special one since it was for our anniversary.

I am deeply touched of her thoughtfulness.

It turned out really well. She even made a homemade fondant/frosting.

I asked her to give me the recipe to this cake but she only watches youtube video when she bakes so I can't really share it here.

I love how colorful it was although it was a huge cake and we couldn't really eat them all.

Even the dogs helped us ate this treat!

I told her that the next time, maybe she can use half of the ingredients that a recipe calls for so that, the product she is making is not that huge. I don't like wasting food so every time, we throw something, I feel so bad.

I picked all of the tomatoes from my garden because we been having frost. If they ripen up, it's good but if not, it's okay. My husband loves fried green tomatoes but I want to try how it would taste like when I marinate it in pesto and bake it.

I also pre-boiled some chicken legs before marinating them in pesto.I use the Knorr pesto mix sauce.
To make the sauce:

Friday, October 24, 2014

I picked all of the tomatoes in my garden. There are so many greens but they are starting to ripen up now. I have a medium sized basket full of ripe cherry tomatoes so I decided to make a tomato soup. This is something that I have never made before but I am giving it a try as I don't want to waste the tomatoes.

Add all the ingredients except the half and half and let it boil. Lower the heat to medium high and let it cook for about one hour.

Using a spider skimmer or strainer, scoop up the tomatoes and put it in the blender as shown below.

Blend it till everything turned into a sauce.

Put the tomato sauce back to the wok and let it cook for another 30 minutes. This time add the half and half. When the creamer is incorporated, cook for another 30 minutes in low heat. The longer the soup cooks, the better. .

Serve it with crushed riceworks chips or any kind of chips that you prefer. Add some cheese and fresh parsley. Sliced french bread slightly toasted is so delicious to dip in the soup.

The soup turned out really delicious! I am planning to make some more when the other tomatoes ripen up and freeze it so we will have some for the Winter.

Thursday, October 23, 2014

This is what we had for dinner tonight. Hubby love the fried rice with kimchi I made last night that he wanted to have some again tonight. I have never made fried rice with kimchi before but watching the Korean Food Made Simple hosted by Judy Joo in Cooking channel inspired me to try it.

We had fried rice, pork chops, steam veggies, and meat loaf.

This is hubby's plate. I gave him a little extra as he needs it.

The fried rice has garlic, shredded carrots and scallions seasoned with soy sauce and steak seasoning. You can also add eggs if you want to.

As you may have noticed, the price of the beef is getting so expensive these days. We replaced ground beef with ground turkey because of the price. It's not as good as the beef but her, you have to do what you have to do to make your budget fits right? Anyway, I made this meatloaf out of ground turkey.

I was blog hopping last night and saw this simple recipe of no-bake peanut butter energy snacks. I thought of trying it but I did not have peanut so I used the left over trail mix that we have in the kitchen.

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